Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-05-26
THE NATION.

OOV. w uicu
on the tn inst.
A gasoline well has been discovered near
Greelyville Kansas.
Forest fires are doing considerable dam
age in Pennsylvania.
United States Treasurer Hyatt filed his
bond on the 2lst inst.
The Pennsylvania legislature adjourned
sine die on the Goth inst.
Forest fires have destroyed much valu
able timber in Wisconsin.
Edward Flanagan, aged l03 died ut FL
lington, Wis, Sunday, May %.
Henry George says there will be labor
candidate for president in 1883.
Opium to the value of $50 900 was sliced
in San Francisco the other day.
Mrs. Catherine Rood of Essex, Vt, died
a few days since, aged 10i years.
Mrs. u. S. Grant has been seriously i'll
with diphtheria. She is now convalescing.
Thirteen tenement house, in Savannah,
Ga, were destroyed by fire sunday, the
ed.
The French government has contracted
with Chicago parties for 100000 pounds
corned beef.
The report of the department of ngricul
ture for May indicates decline in the
condition Of wheat.
Prairie fires and heavy wind storms
have done great damage throughout
Manitoba this spring.
Ben: Perley Poore the we'll known news.
paper correspondent, is seriously i'll at his
home in Washington.
The mills Of the Reader paper company
1T Versailles Conn, were burned Sunday,
the 22d. Loss $4,000.
Gen. Pasco, lawyer of pronounced abil-
lty, has been nominated Unitel States
senator from Florida, to succeed Senator
Jones.
p. T. Barnum's tannery and II adjacent
buildings at Bridgeport, Conn, burned on
the 2lsu, with 100000 loss, leaving IL fam
| lilies homeless.
Charles b. Reynolds of Norristown, n.
j., has been fined s26 for b!asphemy, for
circulating a pamphlet denying the infal-
libility OF the bible.
Sarah Field, n Delaware Indian Of
| Ninita, Ind. Ter, has been sentenced to be
HANGED Aug. ~ for the murder OF her
daughters illegitimate child.
The Pennsylvania state liquor league
will fight the high license law passed by
the legislature of that state, by testing its
constitutionality in the courts.
Cannon Falls, Mimi, was almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire on the Fist inst.
Twenty-Five business houses were burned
The loss is estimated at 10000.
Rev James A. Siddall one of the most
prominent preachers in the Northeast
Methodist Conference of Indiana, has been
ad judged insane, and sent to an asylum.
Eighteen thousand building operators
in Chicago are on a strike. Both masters
and men are very determined, ana there
is every prospect Of a protracted strike.
Later particulars from the express rob-
terry on the International a. Great North
ern road at Mcneil Station, Texas, state
that the amount stolen is e,timated at
$4,000.
Gray Shepherd and Eleaseer Isaacs two
| Philadelphia reporters, were killed by a
Pennsylvania express while returning
from the state fair grounds Sunday eve
ming, May -.
Judge Pardee of the United States cir
cult court in Atlanta held the Georgia
local option law to lie constitutional. The
case will be appealed to the United States
supreme court.
Ben Butler, at an anti-coercion meeting
at Lowell, Mass, said he believed, as the
Irish had fought our battles, this country
ought to help Ireland if she ever got into
war with England.
VIM. II. Mclllhaney, general freight
agent of the New York Central railroad,
has been discharged in disgrace" McIll-
haney was accused of embezzling $25 900
of the company's money.
| The American government has inter-
ceied for the three condemned Mexican
officers who violated American territory
at Nogalez, and they will probably have
| their sentences committed.
President Fitzgerald of the Irish league
has written to Gladstone saying that he
understood that he (Gladstone) is coming
to America this fall, and extending to him
the cordial hospitality Of the league.
| Secretary Lamar has decided that the
evidence did not warrant the allowance
of the claim of Jacob Herman of Hall
county, Nebraska, amounting to $1,000 on
account Of Ogalalla and Sioux Indian
raids in 1865.
A complete system of mounted police
| patrol has been established along the inter
national boundary on the Canadian side,
with view of making it impossible for
Canadian Bloods to continue their THEW
ing operations.
A shifting engine on the Baltimore &
OHIO railroad at Bay View station near
Baltimore, collided with passenger car
| on the afternoon of the 22d inst. Sno WIDEN
Clemens was killed and John w. Martin,
Jas. Z. Hare and Oliver Buckalew were
seriously injured.
Reports received from the region OF
North Mexico recently visited by earth
| quake shocks, say that in one village 60
| persons were killed and many wounded.
AT the hour the earthquake was felt vol
cano of fire was started in the Sierra Ma
DIRE mountains, which is still active.
An attempt will lie made to secure tho
release of VIM. Haight one of the Frisco
train robbers on the ground that the cour,
which convicted him had no jurisdiction
a fact estabi she'd by the decision in the
| Fotheringham case. The one difficulty in
the way is the fact that Haight pleaded
guilty.
The friends of Franklin j. Moses. the
lawyer and ex-judge and Ex-Governor OF
South Carolina have made application to
| Governor Ames and council for "a pardon.
| Moses in October 1856, was sentenced to